Volume 2, Issue 4, December 2008 e-Newsletter

In This Dear Colleagues message from Debra Jackson Issue It seems such a short time ago that I that the vast majority of these was writing an end-of-year message to candidates submit at, or within one Editorial the group. 2008 has gone so quickly, semester of their earliest completion and here we are again, all about to time. I attribute this success in Debra Jackson retreat from work for a while, and prompt completions to excellence in Congratulations enjoy some holiday time. supervision, improved student Dr Yenna selection processes (initiated by Salamonson 2008 has been a really wonderful year UWS), and our student support for FaCH. We have achieved some innovations, which have fostered a Mr Steve Frost Mr Steve Frost fabulous outcomes. I have been community of students, and include Research keeping my eye on the group the Writing Retreats, the Publication Celebrations publications for the year, and 2008 will Syndicate, Research Circle, and The year in review be another bumper year for us. It is Student Research Club. especially pleasing to note that so 4 writing retreats many of our members are publishing in We have also had some notable Publication journals that have been ranked as A* individual successes during 2008. Syndicate or A on the ERA ranking. Over the These include: Research coming years this will likely become • Professor Rhonda Griffiths Assistant more and more important. Not just for appointment as Head of Trainee Program research funding purposes, but for School, Nursing and Midwifery FaCH web pages purposes of promotion, and research • Professor Margaret Vickers and vUWS site active status. promotion to full Professor ExPO & NIPPER • Dr Yenna Salamonson’s In terms of grants successes, we have Research in Focus: success in winning the Vice- had a very good year indeed. We all Chancellors Excellence Award Selecting a know the trials and tribulations of for Teaching and Learning journal ERA putting together these national • Associate Professor Louise competitive grants. Each application Linkages with O’Brien’s appointment to CSU the community that is submitted represents an as a full Professor, which she enormous amount of work for the FaCH Activities takes up in early 2009. (I am submitting team…meetings, planning, very happy to advise that Research Circle endless drafts, tired and emotional Louise will remain a member of CNRU Report team members, refining, peer feedback FaCH) Summer Scholar etc etc etc. But we have our share of success, and these really are a • Dr Ros Weaver’s success in NVivo Course testament to the very resilient and being appointed to a research Blacktown collegial relationships we have within position in the UWS Medical Conference FaCH. School. (again, I am please to Advanced Notice: advise that Ros remains a We have also had a very good year in member of FaCH) Research terms of student completions, with Futures • FaCH members success in the multiple graduates in both 2008 2008 UWS Research Awards: Call for Call for ceremonies, and we are on track for Professor Lesley Wilkes Abstracts o 2009, with at least one graduand in the category “UWS 2008 Publications already on the graduate list for 2009, Top Researchers by and five more submissions expected Student Completion” before March. Most pleasing of all is

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o My own successes in the categories of “UWS Top Researchers by Student Completion”, and “UWS Top Researchers by Publication” FaCH Newsletter In other major achievements, we finally have a website that works!!! Sincere Editors: thanks to all for their help and cooperation in getting our website up and keeping it

current. Debra Jackson, Michel I would like to say a special thanks to Michel Edenborough, who really keeps it all Edenborough together for us. She has the fabulous ability to work on a dozen things at once, and remain calm, even when things get chaotic, heated, or people get ‘tired and emotional’! Thanks from us all Michel… we have all greatly appreciated your support and assistance during 2008.

So, thanks to all for your hard work, collegiality, generosity, and participation. I hope you all have a well-earned rest over the summer break, and I wish everyone a wonderful peaceful and happy Christmas and New Year… see you all in 2009! Debra Jackson, Group Leader

Congratulations Dr. Yenna Salamonson was awarded the VCs Award for excellence in Teaching

recently. This award recognises the commitment and excellence Yenna demonstrates in teaching and learning especial in relation to students CALD Web Links backgrounds. Well done and congratulations Yenna.

FaCH Research In addition, Ms Cathy Dickson was nominated for the Community Engagement

Group Link Award. Congratulations Cathy on your nomination. http://www.uws. edu.au/fach/fac Mr Steve Frost, is to be congratulated for winning the “Best Presentation” at the h School of Public Health and Community Medicine Student Conference. Steve’s paper “Timing of repeated bone mineral density measurements: Development of an absolute risk-based prognostic model” was the Best Presentation in his Contact Us stream. m.edenborough @uws.edu.au Research Celebrations Function

On the 24th November, the UWS Research Office held a celebration to recognise the achievements of the top Announcement researchers in the University for 2007. Recognition was paid for achievement in the following categories: Dementia Conference 2009 Call for • Top 20 Income Earners Abstracts • Top 20 RHD Student Completions • Top 40 in HERDC Publications

As we did in the 2007 awards, FaCH again performed well in these awards, with Lesley Wilkes being recognised for her performance in student completions, and Debra Jackson being recognised in student completions, and publications.

These awards remind us of the importance the University places on tangible research outcomes, and highlights the importance of accurate reporting of publication outcomes.

Let try to do even better next year!!!!

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 2 of 17 Four Writing Retreats During this year we have run a throughout the retreat. Participants also pair up and discuss and give feedback to series of writing retreats for FaCH members and students. FaCH their partner regarding manuscripts. Participants have reported that blocking Residential Writing Retreats are held in collaboration and with the support out three days to dedicate solely to writing and the collegial atmosphere at of the School of Nursing and Midwifery. The purpose of these the retreats are greatly appreciated and retreats is to provide mentorship to highly conducive to productivity. Our w early career researchers and RHD final retreat for the year was held at students in the generation of Hawkesbury this week. It was the last one for the Hawkesbury Conference relevant, quality publications for submission to peer review journals. Centre so we will be looking to secure another suitable establishment for next

These retreats have been year.

enormously successful for us, in the most part, due to the dedicated Many thanks to those of you who have support of mentors who are selected mentored over the year and to from the FaCH Core Membership participants who have worked so hard to group. These members volunteer to achieve their goals. Best wishes over the holiday season. take part, giving expert advice and guidance to participants continuously Michel Edenborough

Pictures from the December Writing Retreat below

Year in Revie

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 3 of 17 Publication Syndicate This year FaCH introduced a Publication Syndicate for early career researchers and RHD students. Participants met in two hour blocks once a month from September to December 2008. The short term aims of the Publication Syndicate were to a) provide a supportive environment for constructive and scholarly group feedback of each member’s work, b) progressively develop each member’s manuscript towards submission to a peer review journal and c) encourage each member to finalise or produce a paper ready for submission to a scholarly journal before the end of 2008. Longer term aims include d) increasing the publication rate of members and e) developing strong collaborative activities within the FaCH Research Group. Commitment to the Syndicate involved one week before each meeting, each member would submit to the facilitators a draft manuscript of ‘work in progress’ that would then be circulated to all others in the group. Each member would then read the other manuscripts and come to the meeting prepared with supportive and constructive feedback, and in this way each person received valuable feedback from all other members. Members and facilitators agreed that participation in the Publication Syndicate was very rewarding and beneficial to all. A number of members are ready or very close to submitting high quality manuscripts to A+ and A ranked journals. Other members noted that although they still had considerable work to do to achieve their goal, they were more than pleased with their decision to commit to the syndicate for three months.

cont… Comments from participants “as an early career researcher it was ‘amazingly helpful’, learning tips to help with publication process, little hints etc. w Information and feedback, terminology, journal articles etc”, “I really enjoyed it, it was timely and this particular group is motivating. If not for the Syndicate I would have put writing aside, it really motivated me”, “getting fresh eyes to look at your work, you see new good ways to look at it”, “the journey’s been excellent, everybody’s been really supportive”, “I can see how much everybody’s papers have improved”.

Roslyn and I would like to thank participants for their diligence and commitment to the group and wish you every success in the future for submitting your papers. We would like to see the Publication Syndicate continue in the New Year, perhaps in a slightly different format. We’ll keep you posted. In the meantime, all the best to everyone over the holiday season.

Research Assistant Trainee Program Another newly developed program we have introduced within FaCH has been

Year in Revie our Research Assistant Trainee Program. Many of you may have met one or all of our trainees, Jen, Ruth or Dave, based at Campbelltown and Parramatta. These students have been assisting us in survey data entry into SPSS, electronic literature searches and maintaining and developing Endnote files, submitting publications into DEST, maintaining our vUWS site and developing our newsletter, photocopying, entering documents into Nvivo, and much, much more. Our trainees will be taking a very well earned rest over the Semester break and we hope to see them back on deck later in the New Year. Thank you very much for your efforts, Jennifer, Ruth and David, have a safe and happy holiday. Michel Edenborough

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 4 of 17 FaCH on-line We have been working NIPPER Report really hard to keep our The year has finished as it began with a lot of vUWS and web pages up- energy and enthusiasm. We have recently to-date. If you have any submitted two ARC Linkage grants and are busy information you would like developing further applications for submission to see posted on either site, to the ARC and NH&MRC in early 2009. We are please advise Debra or pleased to welcome two new higher degree Michel and we will make students to NIPPER, Judy Reid who is every effort to maintain the undertaking her Masters Honours with a project currency and immediacy of exploring family and social factors influencing these resources. We are women’s decisions around infant feeding, and continually looking for ways Suza Trajkovski a Doctoral student looking at of keeping FaCH members recruitment and retention in Neonatal Intensive and members of the wider Care. Congratulations to Elaine Burns who has community abreast of completed her confirmation of candidature and relevant information and is well on track with her data collection. At our activities of the group. In recent planning meeting we developed an fact, we are looking to outline for a program for 2009 to include new develop a Facebook site for research projects, a one day conference built interested students to around a visiting scholar and our ongoing connect and converse seminar program for the Health Care for within multiple discussion Women and Families in the West. Our links groups about issues with our academic and clinical colleagues are a relevant to them. We will key to our success and we would like to thank keep you posted as this and everyone for their support in 2008, while we other initiatives come to look forward to a productive 2009. Wishing you fruition. all a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. Virginia and Annie

Exploring Pregnancy Outcomes (ExPO) The latter half of the year has been a busy time for the members of the ExPO research node. We have been interviewing women and midwives for two of our studies: ‘Exploring Obesity in Childbirth’ and ‘Physical Activity in Pregnancy’. The teams associated with each of these projects are in the process of analysing the data. Margie Duff presented a paper ‘Caring for Obese Women: Midwives Experiences and Concerns’ at the Women’s Hospitals Australasia Conference in November; and preliminary results of the physical activity and pregnancy study will be presented at the Australasian Society for Behavioural Health and Medicine in Auckland in February 2009, with a paper entitled ‘Physical Activity In Pregnancy: Women’s Perceptions, Practices And Influencing Factors’. In January we will begin the next phase of the physical activity and pregnancy study with a project exploring the validity of pedometers in pregnant women, this will be conducted as a summer project by a student from the medical school. Hannah has just commenced her analysis of 6000 birth records exploring birthing positions in second stage of labour. We have a meeting on the 12th December which will include feedback on the each of the projects and develop the outline for progressing these projects to their next stage. Thank you to all members of the ExPO team for their commitment and participation in 2008 wishing you all a wonderful Christmas and a safe and happy New Year Virginia and Annie

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 5 of 17 Linkages with the Selecting a Journal ERA community At the recent WERiN meeting Debra Jackson

presented information on “Understanding Earlier in the year Debra Journal Ranking”; slides from this flagged with the group the presentation are available on our vUWS site. importance of having strong Of interest to many of our members who and robust industry and were not able to attend is the importance consumer relationships. It is a and thought that is required in selecting a goal of FaCH that within the suitable journal to send our manuscripts. next 12 months, every FACH Some of the issues raised at the member will have at least one presentation were citation rates, impact strong industry relationship and factor, number of articles published, to achieve this, we really need immediacy index and cited half life. Many of to scrutinise our links with you may be well familiar with the ISI index, industry in a couple of ways. which releases an annual list, is

internationally recognised, multi-disciplinary Firstly, we need to make them and is the most established of all indexes. visible, and secondly, we need However, our University takes into to strengthen them. In relation consideration the Excellence in Research for to the former, can you please (ERA) index. Information about the forward details of your industry ERA is available on the ARC web site, all relationships and community journals on this list have been allocated a engagement to Michel, who will defined quality ranking. A* is the top 5%, A form a database, which will help next 15%, B next 30% and C bottom 50%. make our community/industry For further information please see our vUWS engagement a lot more visible, site or visit the ARC web pages. both to ourselves and to others, including, details of appointments to national organisations, professional bodies etc.

In relation to strengthening these relationships... some members of the group already have some really strong and positive industry and consumer relationships which is great, and to those people, we ask you to develop your relationships further. For those who do not have any relationships, let’s work on building one.

If anyone needs help with this, please let Debra know, and she will work with you to facilitate the development of such a relationship.

Research Circles

This semester there have been four research circles meetings, all of which have been well supported by both staff and research students. A total of nine presentations on various topics were given by staff and students and all were very well received. We wish all presenters the very best for their individual projects and look forward to further discussion and updates as their work progresses. The support from all who have contributed has made this a successful forum in which much scholarly discussion has been created. We wish to thank all who have attended and participated to ensure the success of the Research Circles in 2008. We look forward to your ongoing support and further research dialogue in 2009. A very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all! Kath Peters & Liz Halcomb

FaCH Activities

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 6 of 17 Profile of the Clinical Nursing Research Unit The Clinical Nursing Research Unit (CNRU) established in 1996, is located at Nepean Hospital and is a joint venture between the University of Western Sydney (UWS) and Sydney West Area Health Service (SWAHS). Professor Lesley Wilkes, Director of the unit, holds a conjoint appointment with SWAHS and UWS and is a member of the Family and Community Health Research (FaCH) group at UWS. The unit endeavours to promote research-based practice among nurses, nursing students and other health care professionals. Under the leadership of Professor Wilkes the unit has successfully obtained research grants from funding bodies such as NHMRC, ARC, NRB and UWS partnership and internal grant schemes for a variety of research projects focussing on clinical nursing, palliative care, aged care, women’s health, chronic and complex care, adolescent health, family support in health and illness, spiritual care, models of nursing care, nursing work force issues and other clinical aspects of nursing practice. Staff from SWAHS and FaCH members have been involved in a number of these projects.

Professor Wilkes also provides guidance to novice researchers through various stages of their research, supervises nursing research students in obtaining higher degrees including Masters Honours and PhD, and also provides expertise in qualitative and quantitative research methods. A number of higher degree research students from UWS, research assistants and summer scholars have worked and continue to work at the unit on a variety of projects. Recently an ARC linkage grant was awarded to Professor Debra Jackson, Dr Lauretta Luck and Professor Lesley Wilkes to investigate into a project titled: ‘Violence in the hospital setting: Testing the predictive validity of a violence assessment tool for nurses’. SWAHS is the partner organization for this project and a PhD student will commence on this project in March 2009.

Staff and current students at CNRU Director: Professor Lesley Wilkes, Tel: (02) 4734 3179; Email: [email protected] Senior Research Officer: Dr Shantala Mohan, Tel: (02) 4734 3180, Email: [email protected] Administrative officer: Mrs Anna McManus, Tel: (02) 4734 3181, Email: [email protected] PhD students: Glenda McDonald Pictured here left to right Lesley, Shantala Summer Research Scholar: and Anna Spasija Volcevska

Current Research Grants • Jackson, D., Luck, L., & Wilkes, L. (2008). Violence in the hospital setting: Testing the predictive validity of a violence assessment tool for nurses. ARC Linkage Grant. • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., Mannix, J., Smith, A., Mohan, S., Edenborough, M., & Raymond, D. (2008). Non English Speaking Background (NESB) students completing an accelerated/compressed nursing program in a tertiary institution: Career aspirations and perceptions of nursing as a profession. Funded by Family & Community health Research group, UWS. • Jackson, D., Andrew, S., Edenborough, M., Halcomb, E., Salmonson, Y., Luck, L., Peters, K., Weaver, R., Wilkes, L. (2008). Understanding whistleblowing in the health sector: experiences before and after the event. • Cioffi, J., Wilkes, L., Warne, B., Harrison, K. (2008). Care of clients with chronic and complex conditions: Role of the community nurse in the multidisciplinary team. UWS Partnership Grant. Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 7 of 17 • Surviving and thriving in the face of workplace adversity: An intervention to develop personal resilience in nurses and midwives (2006-2009) ARC Linkage Grant. • Model of care: a family focused approach to promote child protection (2007-2010) ARC Linkage Grant. • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., & Mannix, J. (2008). Adolescent fathers: Experiences, support needs and resilience Published Refereed Journal Articles in 2008 • Wilkes, L. & Mohan, S. (2008). Nurses in the clinical area: Relevance of a PhD. Collegian, 15(4), 135-142. • Edenborough, M., Jackson, D., Mannix, J. & Wilkes, L. (2008). “Living in the red zone: The experience of child-to-mother violence.” Child & Family Social Work, 13(4): 464-473. • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., Vallido, T. (2008). Placing a relative into a nursing home: Family members’ experiences after the move: A review of the literature. Geriaction, 26(1), 24-29. • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., Vallido, T. (2008). The experiences of family members placing a relative into residential care: The move. Geriaction, 26(2), 5-13. • Mohan, S., Wilkes, L.M., Jackson, D. (2008). Lifestyle of Asian Indians with coronary heart disease: The Australian Context. Collegian, 15(3), 115-121. • Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L., & Vickers, M. (2008). A new model of bullying in the nursing workplace: Organizational characteristics as critical antecedents. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(2), E60-E71. • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L.M., Barton, B. (2008). Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Challenges in maintaining employment. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(3), 165-176. • Hayman, B., Wilkes, L., Cioffi, J. (2008). Change process during redesign of a model of nursing practice in a surgical ward. Journal of Nursing Management, 16(3), 257-265. • Parris, M., Vickers, M. H. & Wilkes, L. (2008), Caught in the Middle: Organisational Impediments to Middle Managers’ Work-Life Balance, Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(2), 101-117. • Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Vickers, M., & Jackson, D. & (2008). The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace. Nurse Researcher, 15(2), 19-29. • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L.M., Barton, B. (2008). Working and caring for a child with chronic illness: Barriers in achieving work-family balance. Journal of Management & Organisation, 14(1), 59-72. • Beale, B., Wilkes, L., Power, B., & Beale, R. (2008). Aunties and Uncles Co- operative Family Project: The experiences of children, volunteers and parents. Child: Care, Health and Development, 34(2), 173-179. • O’Baugh, J., Wilkes, L.M., Luke, L.M. & George, A. (2008). Positive attitude and cancer: The nurses’ perspective. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14(2), 109-114. Conference presentations (2008) • Wilkes, L., Cioffi, J., Warne, B., Harrison, K. (2008). Clients with chronic and complex conditions: their experiences of community nursing services. RCNA annual Conference, 2008, Perth, 25-27 September. • Mc Donald, G., Jackson, D., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L., & Mohan, S. (2008). Continuing connections: fostering mentoring relationships between retired and working nurses and midwives. RCNA annual Conference, 2008, Perth, 25-27 September. • Mohan, S., Wilkes, L., & Jackson, D. (2008). Qualitative research using migrant Asian Indians as a sample: Methodological concerns. 14th Qualitative Health Research Conference 2008, Banff, Canada, October 3-6. • Mohan, S., Jackson, D & Wilkes, L. (2008). Health behaviours and risk of th FaCH Activities cont... coronary heart disease among migrant Asian Indians. 14 Qualitative Health Research Conference 2008, Banff, Canada, October 3-6. • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., & Mohan, S. (2008). Determining best practice for the management of the confused older person in acute care. The 2008 International Nursing Research Conference, Liverpool, England, 8-11th Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 8 of 17 April. • Mohan, S., Wilkes, L., & Jackson, D. (2008). Coronary Heart Disease and Asian Indian migrants in Australia: Influence of Indian culture on experiences, knowledge, health beliefs and behaviours. The 2008 International Nursing Research Conference, Liverpool, England, 8-11th April. • Edenborough, M., Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., & Mannix, J. (2008). Child-to- mother violence: Implications for clinical practice from a population study. 10th International Paediatric & Child health nursing Conference, Darwin, 30 April – 2nd May • George, A., Vickers, M., Wilkes, L & Barton, B. (2008). Grief and dealing with health professionals: Experiences of working parents of children with chronic illness. 10th International Paediatric & Child health nursing Conference, Darwin, 30 April – 2nd May. Shantala Mohan

Summer Scholar at CNRU

Spasija Volcevska, pictured right

Title of research project: Measuring the outputs of nursing research in Australia, 2004-2008. Research team: Professor Lesley Wilkes, Professor Debra Jackson & Spasija Volcevska. Summary of project: This project aims to measure the research outputs of nurses in Australia in national and software and analysed in international peer reviewed nursing relation to the research journals published between 2004- topic,data source, location of 2008. A list of nursing journals with data collection, research high impact factor will be chosen and methodology used, funding identified for authorship from sources and researcher profile Australian nurses. Using a including their gender, specialty, quantitative approach data will employment base and location. entered into SPSS computer Shantala Mohan

Nvivo Workshop FACH members learning new tricks

Cathy Dickson, Sharon Bourgeois and Roslyn Weaver recently took time to undertake a qualitative analysis course using NVivo8 at the Research Farm ‘’ run by Pat Bazely at Bowral. Aside from the analytical and computer program work; the orchard walk and recipe sharing ideas made for a well rounded 3 day workshop. Data used during the project contributed to projects that are being undertaken by the members of FACH.

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 9 of 17 Blacktown Nursing and Midwifery Research Festival 2008 The Blacktown Nursing and Midwifery Research Festival this year was held on the 22nd of October 2008 at Blacktown RSL and was a huge success. A number of staff and students from FaCH presented their research at this festival with presentations generating a lot of interesting discussions and feedback from nurses and clinicians. Listed below are the details of presentations made by FACH members and students:

• Ferguson, L: Using A Team Nursing Approach in the Acute Care Setting: A Nurse Unit Manager’s Perspective. • Ogunsiji, O: A Model of Health Seeking Behaviour for West African Immigrant Women in Australia. Supervisors: Professor Lesley Wilkes, Professor Debra Jackson & Dr. Kath Peters. • Rodgers, A: Concerns for the Future: The Experiences of Older Parents as Primary Carers for their Adult Children with Intellectual Disability in Western Sydney. Supervisors: Professor Lesley Wilkes & Dr. Christine Taylor • Stevens, J: Midwives and Doulas: Understanding of the Role of the Doulas in Pregnancy and Early Motherhood. Supervisors: A/Prof Hannah Dahlen, Dr Kath Peters and Professor Debra Jackson • Elmir, R: Women‘s Lived Experience: Life After a Hysterectomy following a Severe Postpartum Haemorrhage. Supervisors: A/Prof. Virginia Schmied and A/Prof Louise O’Brien • Wilkes, L., Jackson, D., Mohan, S., & Wallis, G: Determining Best Practice for Management of the Older Person with Behavioural Disturbances in the Acute Care Setting. • Cioffi, J., Wilkes, L., Warne, B., Harrison, K., & Cummings, J: The Role of the Community Nurse in the Multidisciplinary Team Caring for Clients with Chronic & Complex Conditions: A Descriptive Study. Research Futures UWS Events Diary Events on Wednesday 11 February 2009

Start Date Event Time

Wednesday 11 February 2009 Research Futures Forum 9:00 AM

9.30 AM Tuesday to 2 - 4 June 2009 Postgraduate Research Futures Forum Thursday 4.30 PM

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PRELIMINARY CALL FOR ABSTRACTS “Creating successful dementia care: A multidisciplinary approach” Parramatta Campus, University of Western Sydney th st Conference: 20 July 2009 Workshops: 21 July 2009 Keynote speakers • Professor Ladislav Volicer MD, PhD, FAAN, FGSA is a recognised international expert in advanced dementia care, published in the field of clinical management of dementia, his expertise includes behavioural symptoms, medical complications and eating difficulties. He established the Dementia Special Care Unit twenty years ago and introduced the concept of structured palliative care for patients with advanced dementia. • Ms Joyce Simard MSW is an internationally renowned speaker on subjects related to quality of life for people with dementia, with a master’s degree in social work. She is the author of “The End of Life Namaste Care Program for People with Dementia”. Submission of abstracts around one of three conference themes are invited. These are: 1. Promoting a sustainable workforce 2. Innovative practices 3. Clinical leadership initiatives ABSTRACT SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 28TH February, 2009

Workshop Program

• Morning: To be advised • Afternoon: To be advised If you are interested in submitting an abstract or being added to our mailing list, please contact Debbie Taylor-Robson 02 9685 9503 [email protected] NB: A web site is currently under construction for the 2009 Dementia Conference and Workshops, a link to the page will be circulated as soon as it is available.

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 11 of 17 Academic Resources Latest FaCH Conference Information For all the latest information on upcoming conferences please go to our FaCH vUWS site. If you know of any conferences, forums, seminars or workshops you would like to see included there please forward to Michel [email protected]

In addition, if you have any recent articles, photos or information that you would like to share in future editions of the FaCH eNewsletter, you can also send them to Michel [email protected]

Publications Achievements Conferences, events & grants Graduation ceremonies Staff activities & articles of interest Media or press articles Special interest groups Research projects

Recent FaCH Publications Books, Book Chapters and Journal Papers for 2008 to Please note, if date you have any publications 1. Andrew, S., Gregory, L., Cowin, L., Eagar, S., Hengstberger-Sims, C., & not yet listed Rolley, J. (2008). Psychometric properties of the Australian nurse here please competency 2000 standards. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45, advise Michel 1512-1515. so we can add them to our 2. Andrew, S., Salamonson, Y., & Halcomb, E. (2008). Integrating mixed database and methods data analysis using NVivo: An example examining attrition and don’t forget to persistence of nursing students. International Journal of Multiple Research advise us of Approaches, 2(1), 36-43. your conference 3. Andrew, S., Salamonson, Y., Weaver, R., Smith, A., O'Reilly, R., & Taylor, presentations C. (2008). Hate the course or hate to go: Semester differences in first year as well. Thank nursing attrition. Nurse Education Today, 28(7), 865-872. you 4. Bick, D., Beake, D., Pellowe, C., Dykes, F., & Schmied, V. (2008). Comparing structured versus non-structured breastfeeding programmes to support the initiation and duration of exclusive breastfeeding in acute and primary healthcare settings. Joanna Briggs Institute Protocol. 5. Borbasi, S., Hengstberger-Sims, C., & Jackson, D. (2008). Quantitative research: Summing it up. In S. In Borbasi & D. Jackson (Eds.), Negotiating the maze of nursing research: An interactive learning adventure (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Mosby. 6. Borbasi, S., & Jackson, D. (Eds.). (2008). Negotiating the maze of nursing research: An interactive learning adventure (2nd ed ed.). Melbourne: Mosby. 7. Butterfiled, J., Faddy, S., Davidson, P., & Ridge, B. (2008). Exercise training in patients with chronic heart failure: effects on thoracic impedance cardiography and B-Type natriuretic peptide. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 28(1), 33-38. 8. Cioffi, J. (2008). Community nursing for a diverse population. In D. Kralik & A. van Loon (Eds.), Community nursing in Australia: Context, issues and applications (pp. 136-147): Blackwell Science. 9. Covic, T., & Jones, M. (2008). Is the essay resubmission option a formative or a summative assessment and does it matter as long as the grades improve. Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 33(1), 272-277. 10. Cowin, L., Hengstberger-Sims, C., Eagar, S., Gregory, L., Andrew, S., & Rolley, J. (2008). Competency measurements: testing convergent validity for two measures. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 17(1), 272-277. Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 12 of 17 11. Cowin, L., Johnson, M., Craven, R., & Marsh, H. (2008). Causal modeling of self-concept, job satisfaction, and retention of nurses. International Journal of Nursing Studies, 45(10), 1449-1459. 12. Davidson, P., DiGiacomo, M., Abbott, P., Zecchin, R., Heal, P., Mieni, L., et al. (2008). A partnership model in the development and implementation of a collaborative, cardiovascular education program for Aboriginal Health Workers Australian Health Review, 21(1), 139-146. 13. Davidson, P., DiGiacomo, M., Zecchin, R., Clarke, M., Lamb, K., Hancock, K., et al. (2008). The sequential development of a cardiac rehabilitation program to improve the psychological and social outcomes of women with heart disease: Conceptual and pragmatic issues. Journal of Women’s Health, 17(1), 123-134. 14. Davidson, P., Digiacomo, M., Zecchin, R., Hancock, K., Chang, E., Daly, J., et al. (2008). A Cardiac Rehabilitation Program to Improve Psychosocial Outcomes of Women with Heart Disease. Journal of Women's Health, 17(1), 123-134. 15. Davidson, P., Salamonson, Y., Webster, J., Andrew, S., DiGiacomo, M., Gholizadeh, L., et al. (2008). Changes in depression in the immediate post- discharge phase in a cardiac rehabilitation population assessed by the Cardiac Depression Scale (Brief Report). Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 28(5), 312-315. 16. Du, H., Davidson, P., Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Zecchin, R., & Newton, P. (2008). Preliminary evaluation of a self-administered, modified six minute walk test. Heart, Lung and Circulation, 17(S 3), S206. 17. East, L., Jackson, D., L, O. B., & Peters, K. (2008). The benefits of computer-mediated communication in nursing research. Contemporary Nurse, 30(1), 83-88. 18. East, L., Jackson, D., O'Brien, L., & Peters, K. (2008). Effects of having a sexually transmitted infection on women's sexuality and self-concept. Paper presented at the Australasian Sexual Health Conference. 19. Edenborough, M., Jackson, D., Mannix, J., & Wilkes, L. (2008). Living in the red zone: The experience of child-to-mother violence. Child & Family Social Work, 13(4), 464-473. 20. Everett, B., Davidson, P., Sheerin, N., Salamonson, Y., & DiGiacomo, M. (2008). Pragmatic insights into a nurse -delivered motivational interviewing intervention in the outpatient cardiac rehabilitation setting. Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, 28(1), 61-64. 21. Fenwick, J., Barclay, L., & Schmied, V. (2008). Craving closeness: A grounded theory analysis of women's experiences of mothering in the special care nursery. Women and Birth, 21(2), 71-85. 22. Fernandez, R., Salamonson, Y., Griffiths, R., Juergens, C., & Davidson, P. (2008). Awareness of risk factors for coronary heart disease following interventional cardiology procedures: A key concern for nursing practice. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14, 433-440. 23. Fernandez, R., Salamonson, Y., Griffiths, R., Juergens, C., & Davidson, P. (2008). Sociodemographic predictors and reasons for participation in an outpatient cardiac rehabilitation programme following percutaneous coronary intervention. International Journal of Nursing Practice, 14, 237- 242. 24. 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Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 14 of 17 system to control the spread of multi-resistant organisms in ICU. Australian Nursing Journal, 15(11), 47-48. 43. Hayman, B., Wilkes, L., & Cioffi, J. (2008). Change process during redesign of a model of nursing practice in a surgical ward. Journal of Nursing Management, 16, 257-265. 44. Hengstberger-Sims, C., Cowin, L., Eagar, S., Gregory, L., Andrew, S., & Rolley, J. (2008). Relating new graduate nurse competence to frequency of use. Collegian, 15, 69-76. 45. Huntingdon, A., Bidewell, J., Gilmour, J., Chang, E., Daly, J., & Wilson, H. (2008). The relationship between workplace stress, coping strategies and health status in nurses. Journal of Occupational Health and Safety: Australia and New Zealand, 24(2), 131-141. 46. Hutchinson, M., Jackson, D., Wilkes, L., & Vickers, M. (2008). A model of bullying in the nursing workplace: Organizational characteristics as critical antecedents. Advances in Nursing Science, 31(2), 60-71. 47. Hutchinson, M., Wilkes, L., Vickers, M., & Jackson, D. (2008). The development and validation of a bullying inventory for the nursing workplace. Nurse Researcher, 15(2), 19-29. 48. Jackson, D. (2008). Editorial: Collegial trust: crucial to safe and harmonious workplaces. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17, 1541-1542. 49. Jackson, D. (2008). Editorial: Random acts of guidance: Personal reflections on professional generosity. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17, 2669-2670. 50. Jackson, D. (2008). Editorial: The ageing nursing workforce: how can we avoid a retirement brain drain? Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(22), 2949- 2950. 51. Jackson, D. (2008). Editorial: What becomes of the whistleblowers? Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(10), 1261-1262. 52. Jackson, D. (2008). Mentored residential writing retreats: a leadership strategy to develop skills and generate outcomes in writing for publication. Nurse Education Today. 53. Jackson, D. (2008). Organising care delivery: facilitator or impediment to supportive working relationships in nursing. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(6), 701-702. 54. Jackson, D. (2008). Patient experiences, family participation, and professional roles. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(2), 147-148. 55. Jackson, D. (2008). Servant leadership: A framework for developing sustainable research capacity in nursing. Collegian, 15(1), 27-33. 56. Jackson, D., & Borbasi, S. (2008). Qualitative research: The whole picture. In S. Borbasi & D. Jackson (Eds.), Negotiating the maze of nursing research: An interactive learning adventure (2nd ed.). Melbourne: Mosby. 57. Jackson, D., & Daly, J. (2008). Pre-registration nurse education under the spotlight again. Collegian, 15(1), 1-2. 58. Jackson, D., Daly, J., & Davidson, P. (2008). Interviews. In R. Watson, H. McKenna, J. Keady & S. Cowman (Eds.), Nursing Research: Design and methods (pp. 281-288). Edinburgh: . 59. Jackson, D., & Edgecombe, G. (2008). Caring for children and adolescents in the community. In D. Kralik & A. van Loon (Eds.), Community nursing in Australia. Melbourne: Elsevier. 60. Jackson, D., & Peters, K. (2008). Use of drug therapy in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Maternal views and experiences. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17, 2725-2732. 61. Johnson, M., Murphy, B., Payne, S., & Chang, S. (2008). Self-assessment

Family and Community Health Research Group e Newsletter Volume 2 Issue 4 15 of 17 of medico-legal risk by doctors: the Know your risk version 1 - short form. Australian Health Review, 32(2), 330-348. 62. Luck, L., Jackson, D., & Usher, K. (2008). Innocent or culpable? Meanings that emergency department nurses ascribe to individual acts of violence. Journal of Clinical Nursing, 17(8), 1071-1078. 63. Matthews, C., Klinken Whelan, A., Johnson, M., & Noble, C. (2008). A piece of the puzzle-the role of ethnic health staff in hospitals. Australian Health Review, 32(2), 236-245. 64. Mccloughen A, O. B. L., Gillies D, Mcsherry C. (2008). 'Nursing Handover within mental health rehabilitation: An exploratory study of practice and perception. International Journal of Mental Health Nursing, 17(4), 287-295. 65. Mohan, S., Wilkes, L., & Jackson, D. (2008). Lifestyle of Asian Indians with coronary heart disease: The Australian context. Collegian, 15(3), 115-121. 66. Newton, P., Davidson, P., Macdonald, P., Ollerton, R., & Krum, H. (2008). Nebulized Furosemide for the management of Dyspnea: Does the evidence support its use? Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 36 (4), 424- 441. 67. Nguyen, N., Frost, S., Center, J., Eisman, J., & Nguyen, T. (2008). Development of prognostic nomograms for individualizing 5-year and 10- year fracture risks. Osteoporosis International, 19(10), 1431-1444. 68. O'Brien, L., Buxton, M., & Gillies, D. (2008). Improving the Undergraduate Clinical Experience in Mental Health Nursing. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 29(5), 505-522. 69. Parris, M., Vickers, M., & Wilkes, L. (2008). Caught in the middle: Organisational impediments to middle managers' work-life balance. Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal, 20(2), 101-117. 70. Peters, K., & Jackson, D. (2008). Two steps forward and one step back: Maternal experiences of parenting a child with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). Journal of Advanced Nursing, 65(1), 62-71. 71. Peters, K., Jackson, D., & Rudge, T. (2008). Research on couples: Are feminist approaches useful? Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62(3), 373-380. 72. Phillips, J., Davidson, P., Jackson, D., & Kristjanson, L. (2008). Multi- faceted palliative care intervention: aged care nurses’ and care assistants’ perceptions and experiences. Journal of Advanced Nursing, 62(2), 216-227. 73. Rolley, J., Davidson, P., Dennison, C., Ong, A., Everett, B., & Salamonson, Y. (2008). Medication adherence self-report instruments: implications for practice and research. Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing, 23(6), 497-505. 74. Rolley, J., Davidson, P., & Salamonson, Y. (2008). Diabetes: A global and local epidemic and a key consideration for cardiovascular nurses. Heart, Lung & Circulation, 17(S3), S74. 75. Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Koch, J., Andrew, S., & Davidson, P. (2008). English-language acculturation predicts academic performance in nursing students who speak English as a second language. Research in Nursing & Health, 31, 86-94. 76. Salamonson, Y., Everett, B., Koch, J., & Frost, S. (2008). The effectiveness of elaborative feedback on academic performance in a web-based introductory pharmacology elective'. Paper presented at the DEANZ 2008 Conference. 77. Schmied, V., Cooke, M., Gutwein, R., Steinlein, E., & Homer, C. (2008). Time to listen: Strategies to improve hospital based postnatal care. Women and Birth, I21(3), 99-105. 78. Schmied, V., Sheehan, A., McCourt, C., Dykes, F., Beake, S., & Bick, D. (2008). Women’s perceptions and experiences of breastfeeding support: a

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